EXCLUSIVE: Alfre Woodard has signed on to play Kevin Hart’s mother-in-law in Fatherhood, the Sony Pictures film adaptation based on the memoir Two Kisses For Maddy: A Memoir Of Loss & Love by Matt Logelin. Paul Weitz is directing the motion picture from a screenplay by Dana Stevens. Weitz penned the current…

NEON has taken U.S. rights to this year’s Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Clemency from filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu and starring Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard. Woodard plays female prison warden Bernadine Williams, who after years of carrying out death row executions, comes up against one inmate who forces…

This list will be updated on a regular basis this week with more events to be announced. Please send any event or party details to anthony@deadline.com. Most events are by invite-only except for the Oscar Week panels; tickets sold for those at Oscars.org. Tuesday, Feb. 19 5:30PM: 21st Costume Designers Guild…

Clemency director-writer Chinonye Chukwu and the film’s stars Alfre Woodard, Danielle Brooks, Richard Schiff, and Aldis Hodge are today’s guests for the Stella Artois and Deadline Sundance Series. They spoke to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about making of the film and more. As Chukwu’s second feature, the story…

The first trailer has been released for Saint Judy which was picked up by Blue Fox Entertainment last September. The movie, which stars Michelle Monaghan, Leem Lubany, Common, Alfred Molina and Alfre Woodard, tells the story of Los Angeles-based immigration attorney Judy Wood who argued what became a landmark case in…

There isn't anywhere nearly as much Donald Trump at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival as there was the past two years, but there is certainly a lot of everything else from all over the world. With 112 films being shown at the Robert Redford founded snowy Utah shindig from January 24 to February 3 next year, the 35th…

Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage, 12 Years a Slave) has been tapped to star opposite lead Jason Momoa in Apple's original drama series See, from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, director Francis Lawrence and the scripted drama venture of Peter Chernin's Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content. Written by Knight and…

Alfre Woodard has signed on to topline prison drama Clemency, opposite Aldis Hodge and Richard Schiff. The pic hails from writer/director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) and centers on a prison warden (Woodard) who confronts her own psychological demons as she develops an emotional connection to the death row inmate…

Emmy-award winner Alfre Woodward will have a guest-star role on Fox’s Empire as Renee, Cookie’s mother, who comes back for a turbulent reunion. Empire comes back with new episodes on Wednesday, March 28 at 8 ET/PT on Fox. The Lee Daniels/Danny Strong musical drama centers on Empire Entertainment and the drama of its…

Alfre Woodard, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Bell and Sharon Stone will announce the nominees for the 75th Golden Globe Awards today (Monday December 11) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The HFPA will livestream the nominations on Facebook Live on the Golden Globes Facebook Page and at…

EXCLUSIVE: Alfre Woodard has joined Alfred Molina and Michelle Monaghan in the indie feature Saint Judy, about a landmark immigration case that changed the way women are treated around the world. Woodard will play Judge Benton, who is crucial to determining the path that a young lawyer (Monaghan) takes when she tries…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired global rights to the Clark Johnson-directed drama Juanita, in what is said to be a continuation of the streaming giant’s global film strategy of working directly with independent filmmakers. The pic, which is currently filming in Virginia, stars Alfre Woodard, Adam Beach, Blair…